Fastener for women&#39;s apparel



March 11,1930. H. M; GILMORE 1,750,588

FASTENER FOR WOMEN'S APPAREL Filed April 13. 1928 IN V EN TOR.

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Patented Mar. 11, 1930 UNITED STATES- HELEN M. GILMORE, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

FASTENER FOR WOMENS APPAREL Application filed April 13,

The invention relates to improvements in apparel fasteners of that type which are used to hold in place the shoulder straps of lingerie worn beneath an outer garment. It

5 has for its object the provision of a device that can be readily attached and detached to and from the shoulder part of the outer 'garment and the holding part of the device easily adjusted to engage and to disengage the lingerie strap beneath the shoulder part. The invention consists in the novel construction, combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter described, pointed out in the appended. claim and illustrated by the accompanying drawing.

In the accompanying drawing, in which similar reference characters designate corresponding parts,

Figure 1 is a plan view, showing the under side of the shoulder part of an outer garment and a lingerie strap extending thereacross, with the fastener attached to the shoulder part, the strap-holding parts being disconnected.

Figure 2 is a similar view, showing the fastener parts connected to hold the lingerie strap in place.

Figure 3 is a side elevation of the fastener with the holding parts disconnected, the garment parts being shown in section.

Figure 4 is a perspective view of the fastener, showing the same detached from the apparel and the holding parts disconnected.

Fig. 5 is a detail view, showing a cross section of the socket member of the fastener.

Referring to the drawings in detail, H designates the shoulder part of an outer garment and B a lingerie strap extending across the shoulder part. The fastener comprises the metal discs C and L, each of which is pro vided with diametrically opposite prongs A projecting from its periphery. The prongs are flexible so that they can be easily bent back and forth without fracture. A short chain G is attached at one end to the disc L and at its other end it is attached to a third disc F. The two discs F and C comprise, respectively, stud and socket members of a snap-fastener; the socket member includes a spring E adapted to engage the head of the 1928. Serial No. 269,632.

stud member when thrust into the socket member.

In applying the fastener, the discs L and C are attached to the under side of the shoulder part H, by thrusting the prongs A through the cloth and bending them back on the discs, as shown in Fig. The discs are positioned so that the shoulder strap B extends between the same and are spaced apart to a distance determined by the length of the chain G. With the apparel on the wearer and the shoulder strap B passing between the attached discs L and C, as shown in Fig. 1, the stud and socket members F and C are forced together with the chain G extending across the shoulder strap B, as shown in Fig. 2. The several parts being so positioned and connected, the shoulder strap will be held with relation to the outer garment and thereby prevented from slipping off the shoulder. T 0 release the strap, the stud and socket members are separated to free the chain. To detach the fastener from the outer garment, the prongs are bent so that they can be'withdrawn from the fabric and the fastener displaced.

I claim:

In combination with a garment having a shoulder portion, of a ribbon holding device including disks adapted to be attached to the shoulder portion in spaced relation to each other, flexible prongs projecting from the periphery of each disk to be pushed through the fabric of the shoulder portion and. bent back on the body part of the disk to fasten detachably the disk to the fabric, one of said disks comprising a member of a snap-fastener, achain secured at one end to the other disk, and a third disk secured to thefree end of the chain and comprising the complementary member of thesnap-fastener, said chain and the adjacent fabric of the shoulder portion forming a loop between the disks attached to the shoulder portion when the-two disks forming the snap-fastener are mutually engaged, said loop so formed op erating to hold in place a ribbon passing therethrough.

HELEN GILMORE. 

